Publications:
Do opaque algorithms have functions? Synthese, 2024.
A Shift Towards Oration: Teaching Philosophy in the Age of Large Language Models. AI and Ethics, with Ryan Lemasters, 2024.
Artifact functions and intervention. Synthese, 2023.
Niche-construction: Environmental Heterogeneity as a Selected Effect. Australasian Philosophical Review, 2022.
How to do things with SVD: Mathematical tool-sharing from physics to performative research. Leonardo, with Joey Orr, 2022.
Forthcoming:
Artifact Functions: A Presentist Social Functionalist Account. In Armin Schulz, Presentist Social Functionalism: Bringing Contemporary Evolutionary Biology to the Social Sciences, with Armin Schulz. Springer. In prep.
Artificial and Natural Functions: Toward a Pragmatic Taxonomy. In Christelle Didier, Aurélien Béranger, Antoine Bouzin, Hugo Paris, and Jérémie Supiot, Engineering and Value Change. Springer. In prep.
Works in progress:
Using and Being Used: Intentional and Structural Theories of Artifact Use.
Privacy as Obscurity: Big Data, Inferences, and Attention.
Manufacturing Publicity: Facial Recognition and Public Privacy.